Ska Studios

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Ska Studios LLC
Type	Limited Liability Company
Founded	2001
Headquarters	Marcy, New York^[1]
Key people	James Silva
Industry	Video games
Employees	1
Website	skasoftware.com

Ska Studios is an independent game developer originally founded by James Silva in 2001 as Totally Screwed Software, before changing their name in 2005 to Ska Software, then again in 2007 to Ska Studios.

They are well-known in indie gaming as having games that utilize graphic cartoon violence. Earlier in the company's existence they often paid tribute to the retro gaming scene with the first two entries of the Zombie Smashers X series paying tribute to River City Ransom and Blood Zero being a tribute to Zelda.

1 Awards and receptions
2 Games
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Awards and receptions

The games coming from the company have garnered generally good ratings and awards from a few websites:
Zombie Smashers X2: Punx and Skins – Reflexive Arcade entry, average reader review: 4.2 out of 5 stars^[2]
Zombie Smashers X2: Punx and Skins – GameTunnel.com 2005 Action Game of the Year ^[3]
Zombie Smashers X2: Punx and Skins – Download.com average rating of 4 out of 5 stars ^[4]
Zombie Smashers X3: Ninjastarmageddon! – GameTunnel.com number 15 of Top 100 Games^[5]
Zombie Smashers X3: Ninjastarmageddon! – Gizaim! Score 7.75/10^[6]
Zombie Smashers X3: Ninjastarmageddon! – Bytten.com Overall Score: 91%^[7]

Their most recent and notable award came from Microsoft who held a Dream-Build-Play contest where independent developers were challenged to use the XNA Game Studio software to create a game and whomever created the best one would get a publishing contract to have the game distributed on Xbox Live Arcade. James Silva tied in first place with his game The Dishwasher: Dead Samurai beating out over 4,500 other entrants from over 100 countries.^[8]^[9]^[10]